The Cultivation of Flowers 
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Helleborus niger or Christmas Rose. — Is peculiar 
m that it pushes its way through the ground in the middle 
of winter. If 
slightly protected 
with a hand glass, 
it may bloom at 
Christmas, and 
early in January. 
It is pure white, 
and grows from 
6 to 12 in. high. 
Other colours are 
pink and dark red. 
Hepatica tri- 
loba or Ane- 
mone hepatica. 
— A pretty little 
plant which pushes 
its little pink 
flowers through 
the ground before 
the foliage, quite 
early in the season. Another variety — Hepatica angulosa 
— has light-blue flowers. Height, 6 to 8 in. 
Heuchera. — A pretty border plant, which produces 
small flowers on good stout stems, thus making it a very 
useful plant for “cut flowers”. The blooms are greenish, 
pink, or red in colour, and the plants grow from 12 to 
18 inches in height. 
Iberis or Perennial Candytuft. — A very showy plant 
for the front of the herbaceous border. It produces great 
Helleborus niger (Christmas Rose) 
